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Link to podcast + transcript | 30th April 2023
Sajith: Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the OGs of the venture industry. Lots here to learn for a venture nerd like me, from this podcast where Patrick O’Shaughnessy hosts three of the senior partners at Bessemer including the legendary Jerermy Levine. I got to learn a lot about how they work together and the Bessemer OS. What i found particularly …
Link to podcast + transcript. 9 May 2023. All words by Fidji Simo unless specified otherwise.
Sajith: Enjoyed this a fair bit. Fidji is a super-operator who ran the Facebook app and now is CEO at Instacart. Very curious hire coming from a digital to a largely physical business, but certainly Instacart having a large and fast-growing ad busines helped.
The podcast is interesting in that it gives you …
Link to Podcast. Link to Transcript. 15 December 2022. Unless specified, all words are by Pete Kazanjy.
Sajith: Relevant for founders of early stage SaaS / B2B companies as well as sales managers or leaders. Pete Kazanjy is well-known for his book Founding Sales which recommends that in early-stage companies, the founder(s) should take a lead in selling because at this stage, what you are looking for is …
Link to podcast. Link to transcript, which I organised as 20VC didn’t publish one.
8th March 2023.
Sajith: really good podcast that is relevant for anyone in the tech world, but PMs and anyone with a strategic bent of mind will really dig it. Glen comes across as some one who can do both blue-sky thinking / strategy and building / coding really well. He is thus able to …
Link to podcast. Link to transcript which I organised as 20VC didn’t have a transcript.
20th February 2023.
Sajith: In this podcast Harry and Zach cover the field of solutions engineering, including, the role of a solutions engineer, how s/he dovetails with the overall sales teams, how to hire and comp them, and so on. Zach leads the solutions consulting team at Rippling. Previously he has worked in similar …
Link to podcast + transcript. 1 February 2023.
Venture is our craft and Marc Andreessen is one of its shokunins. So when the Shokunin speaks, you stop everything and listen, or in my case, read (the transcript). Dwarkesh Patel asks some very good questions to PMarca in this wonderful podcast. I particularly enjoyed reading PMarca’s riff on managerial capitalism vs bourgeois capitalism, and venture as the managerial firm that …
Link to podcast. Published 3 February 2023.
I found it an interesting listen given Intudo is the leading local VC of Indonesia; a la Aleph for Israel, and I daresay Blume for India:) Hence I was curious to learn more about them. I found the following utterly fascinating – their concentrated deployment strategy (only 26 cheques in six years of existence), their sourcing strategy (actively engage with and woo …
Patrick O’Shaughnessy runs the popular Invest Like the Best podcast. A recent episode had Gavin Baker, founder & CIO of Atreides Management LLP, a growth PE investor specializing in tech and consumer plays, as guest. Both Patrick and Gavin are wellknown on investing twitter and run their own investing shops too.
The podcast was titled ‘Investing Through a Bear Market’ and covered how Gavin views investing in a fast-dropping market …